The Flower Shells, from the series Genroku Poem-Shell Matching Game Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

1821 (year of the snake)

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with silver and gaufrage

Dimensions

sheet: 7 5/8 × 7 in. (19.3 × 17.8 cm)

Credit Line

Promised gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970

Loan number

ILE2017.30.112

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 1990 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Bibliography
  • Joan B. Mirviss and John T. Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei Era 1804–1830 (Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 2000), 50–51, no. 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical, color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Uguisu no/ susaki e kakete/ shiohigari/ kyaku wa michikuru/ nami no hanagai.\r\n Poet: Tatsumi no sato Okarou\r\n\r\nHanagai no/ hanamori naran/ oi ki tsutsu/ toru te ni kakaru/ nami no miru me wa.\r\n Poet: Chishundou Fukuyoshi(?)\r\n\r\nUmagai ni/ notte* mo suman/ ama ga ko yo/ hanagai hirau/ shiohi tsuge kose.\r\n Poet: Kyoukadou Magao\r\n\r\n*Ordinary reading is "nori te mo" but Edokko pronunciation was "nottemo"??? (need to check)\r\n\r\n(SO 10-11-2017 tentative)\r\n鶯の　すきさへかけて　汐干狩\r\n客ハミちくる　波の花貝　　　　　　　　　巽里尾花楼\r\n\r\n花貝の　花守ならん　追来つゝ\r\nとる手にかかる　浪のミるめハ　　　　　　 置春洞福養\r\n\r\n馬貝に　乗ても往ん　海人か子よ\r\n花貝ひらふ　汐干告こせ　　　　　　　　 狂歌堂真顔\r\n\r\nReference: Ota p. 50 (cat.no. 4)\r\n

Signed

Getchi Rōjin Iitsu hitsu (brushed by "the Moon Craze Old Man" Iitsu)
月痴(癡)老人　為一　筆

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